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10th May 2022, 01:58 PM #1Senior Member
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Timber ID assistance please
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10th May 2022, 03:09 PM #2GOLD MEMBER
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My guess would be Western Red Cedar or California Redwood.
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10th May 2022, 03:56 PM #3Senior Member
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Thanks for the input. Interesting. I suppose I can see some sense of smlilarity, however, if you were standing where I am you'd be like ....... yeah?....nah.. Yeah?.... Naaahhhh. Yeah?
This pic makes them look far more similar than they appear to the eye.
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10th May 2022, 05:08 PM #4Senior Member
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I'd say aldav is spot on..
Quick test would be to saw or plane a piece and if it gives off the classic WRC smell then so be it.
My money however is on Cali Redwood.
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10th May 2022, 05:24 PM #5Senior Member
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I might run a bit under the drumsander, ahem, which is for sale, ahem, without the dust extractor on. That part should be easy as I sold the dust extractor yesterday.
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10th May 2022, 07:29 PM #6Senior Member
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Western Red Cedar
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12th May 2022, 10:25 AM #7
I dunno what you blokes are seeing, but the piece on the left is almost certainly a hardwood - softwoods don't have that pore structure. It looks an awful lot like a Toona to me. The one on the right is clearly a softwood, whether it's WRC or CR would be pretty hard to say from a pic. No need to fill your shed with sander dust, a few swipes with a hand plane usually releases enough odour from any of those woods to give you a good sniff....
Cheers,IW
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12th May 2022, 11:48 AM #8Senior Member
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Here are a couple of other photos. FWIW, the cut board weighs in at around 400kg/m³, I can't quite measure the waning slab as the only scales I have are for food and they only go up to 5kg, anecdotally it weighs not much more than that looking at when the scales go into overload.
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The slab smells like RC the other has no appreciable smell that I could detect, so some sort of non-ferrous wood then.
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